The Vaal River Barrage, South Africa’s hardest working water way: an historical contemplation

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Tempelhoff, J W N

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Munnik, Victor

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Viljoen, Morné

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2011-01-11T10:32:21Z

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2011-01-11T10:32:21Z

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2007

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TEMPELHOFF,J., MUNNIK, V. & VILJOEN, M. 2007. The Vaal River Barrage, South Africa’s hardest working water way: an historical contemplation. TD: The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 3(1):107-133, Jul. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/3605]

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1817-4434

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http://hdl.handle.net/10394/3911

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South Africa’s Vaal River is the country’s hardest working rivers. It has been
instrumental in securing valuable water supplies in the development of the country’s
economic hub – the Gauteng Province. Since the mid-twentieth century there have been
increasing indications of water pollution threatening the storage facility of the Vaal River
Barrage, built by the water utility, Rand Water, at the start of the twentieth century.
Currently, as a result of a variety of factors, untreated wastewater is posing a severe
environmental threat in the Vaal River Barrage Catchment area. In the article attention
is given to the origins of pollution and recent events that had the effect of mobilising
grassroots anger in civil society with the state of affairs. The article forms part of a
transdisciplinary research project that is currently conducted at North-West University’s Vaal Triangle campus in Vanderbijlpark.

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Vaal River Barrage

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Rand Water

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Water pollution

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Wastewater treatment

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river catchment forums

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industrial development

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Water infrastructure

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Water management

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The Vaal River Barrage, South Africa’s hardest working water way: an historical contemplation

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